[apochromat]

You can't back up those numbers, and they look wildly optimistic to me. History shows intermittent gas shortages. Now you're implying that middle east oil is irrelevant and that it's a government plot to make it relevant.

[dalereed]

The 86% figure was from Joe Shell, who at the time was the president of the Independant Oil Producers of California.

The 1000+ years was from a VP of Union Oil of California.

There is enough oil in known reserves in California to run the country for at least 500 years.

If there is an interm gap in production maybe we can figure out how to burn environmentalist in our cars.

They have to be cheaper and more readily obtainable than alcohol!